Molybdenum-99 for Medical Imaging (2016)
Chapter: Appendix E: Acronyms
Appendix E
Acronyms
| 2D |
Two-dimensional |
| 3D |
Three-dimensional |
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ABIM |
American Board of Internal Medicine |
| ABMS |
American Board of Medical Specialties |
| ABNM |
American Board of Nuclear Medicine |
| ABR |
American Board of Radiology |
| ACGME |
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education |
| ACSI |
Advanced Cyclotron Systems, Inc |
| AECL |
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited |
| AIPES |
Association of Imaging Producers and Equipment Suppliers |
| AMA |
American Medical Association |
| AMIPA |
American Medical Isotopes Production Act |
| ANDA |
Abbreviated new drug application |
| ANL |
Argonne National Laboratory |
| ANSTO |
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation |
| ASNM |
American Society of Nuclear Medicine |
| ATA |
American Thyroid Association |
| AUC |
Appropriate Use Criteria |
|
B&W |
Babcock & Wilcox (now BWX Technologies) |
| BATAN |
Badan Tenaga Nuklir Nasional |
| Bq |
Becquerel |
| BR-2 |
Belgian Reactor II |
| CAD |
Coronary artery disease |
| CANDU |
CANada Deuterium Uranium |
| CBNC |
Certifying Board of Nuclear Cardiology |
| CCaS |
Coronary artery calcium scoring |
| CCTA |
Cardiac computed tomography angiography |
| CEA |
Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives |
| CEA Scan™ |
Carcinoembryonic antigen scan (Tradename for arcitumomab) |
| CERCA |
Compagnie pour l’Etude et la Réalisation de CombustiblesAtomiques |
| Ci |
Curie |
| CIAE |
China Institute of Atomic Energy |
| CIIC |
Canadian Isotope Innovations Corporation |
| CMS |
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
| CNEA |
Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica |
| CNL |
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories |
| CNSC |
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission |
| CORAR |
Council of Radionculides and Radiopharmaceuticals |
| CPT |
Current Procedural Terminology |
| CRCHUS |
Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke |
| CRP |
Coordinated Research Project |
| CT |
Computed tomography |
|
DOE |
U.S. Department of Energy |
| DTPA |
Diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid |
|
EOP |
End of processing |
|
FDA |
U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
| FRM-II |
Forschungsreaktors München II reactor |
| FY |
Fiscal year |
|
GA |
General Atomics |
| GAO |
U.S. Government Accountability Office |
| GE |
General Electric |
| GEHC |
General Electric Health Care |
| GTRI |
Global Threat Reduction Initiative |
|
HANARO |
High-flux Advanced Neutron Application ReactOr |
| HCPCS |
Healthcare Common Procedural Code System |
| HEU |
Highly enriched uranium |
| HFIR |
High Flux Isotope Reactor |
| HFR |
High Flux Reactor |
| HHS |
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| HIFAR |
High Flux Australian Reactor |
| HLG-MR |
High-level Group on the Security of Supply of Medical Radioisotopes |
| HLW |
High-level waste |
|
IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
| INVAP |
Investigación Aplicada |
| IOM |
Institute of Medicine |
| IRE |
Institut National des Radioéléments |
|
JHR |
Jules Horowitz Reactor |
|
KAERI |
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute |
| KJRR |
Kijang Research Reactor |
|
LEU |
Low enriched uranium |
| LLW |
Low-level waste |
| LMI |
Lantheus Medical Imaging |
|
MAA |
Macroaggregated albumin |
| MAG3 (or MAG-3) |
Mercaptoacetyltriglycine |
| MAPLE |
Multipurpose Applied Physics Lattice Experiment reactor |
| MIPS |
Medical Isotopes Production System |
| MIR |
Modernized international reactor |
| MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MOX |
Mixed oxide |
| MPI |
Myocardial perfusion imaging |
| MRI |
Magnetic resonance imaging |
| MTR |
Materials test reactor |
| MURR |
Missouri University Research Reactor Center |
| MYRRHA |
Multi-purpose hYbrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications |
|
NASEM |
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
| NCRP |
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements |
| NDA |
New Drug Application |
| NEA |
Nuclear Energy Agency |
| NECSA |
Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa |
| NEI |
Nuclear Energy Institute |
| NNSA |
National Nuclear Security Administration |
| NRC |
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| NRCan |
Natural Resources Canada |
| NRG |
Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group |
| NRU |
National Research Universal Reactor |
| NTP |
Nuclear Technology Products SOC Ltd. |
|
OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OPAL |
Open-Pool Australian Lightwater Reactor |
| ORC |
Outage reserve capacity |
| ORNL |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| OSTP |
(The White House) Office of Science and Technology Policy |
|
PET |
Positron emission tomography |
| PIPE |
Prairie Isotope Production Enterprise |
| PNNL |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
|
RAS |
Russian Academy of Sciences |
| RIAR |
Scientific Research Institute of Atomic Reactors |
| RMB |
Brazilian Multipurpose Research Reactor |
|
SAFARI-1 |
South Africa Fundamental Atomic Research Installation 1 reactor |
| sANDA |
Supplemental ANDA |
| SCK•CEN |
Dutch: Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie; French: Centre d’Étude de l’énergie Nucléaire; English: Belgian Nuclear Research Center |
| SGE |
Selective gas extraction |
| SHINE |
Subcritical Hybrid Intense Neutron Emitter |
| sNDA |
Supplemental NDA |
| SNMMI |
Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging |
| SPECT |
Single-photon emission computed tomography |
| SRA |
Southern Radioisotopes Alliance Inc. |
|
TIG |
Tungsten inert gas |
| TRIGA |
Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics |
| TRIUMF |
A consortium of Canadian universities, formerly Tri-University Meson Facility |
| TRM |
Target Residual Material |
| UPPI |
United Pharmacy Partners LLC |
|
WBC |
White blood cell |
| WNN |
World Nuclear News |
